I was thinking about them as well, but helicopters are much more difficult to control and require more power to lift the same load.

They are also not easy to build without a kit with most parts included, and once something is bent just a bit, they vibrate like hell -> not a very good platform to take aerial pictures.

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06/08/2006 - 06:41 PM

heres is a success story - http://il.water.usgs.gov/proj/lirb/aerial/heli.html

good points thought, SSE

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Have you had a look on ebay, there are some quite resonable helli's there , I'd would suggest looking into a long range lightwieght wireless camera that could send an image or video to a laptop PC
just a suggestion.